where a crisis starts, gets hot and cools off and ends. there is in this end to the story. >> there was a big sell-off on wall street. how is asia reacting to that now? >> initially at the morning session today we also reacted with a big sell-off. the markets have erased some of their losses from just a couple of hours ago. in the last two hours, they have reversed directions after spending most of the session in negative territory. let's take a look at the big board. as you can see, most of the indexes are still in the red. some of them have closed already. the big factor that weighed down the markets today and yesterday was first quarter gdp data. that data showed that growth in